No, you can't get chlamydia from sharing a phone. It's spread only by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You get chlamydia from having oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to a mother with chlamydia.

You could have chlamydia all during pregnancy and your doctor not know if you weren't tested during your pregnancy. Although chlamydia testing during pregnancy is the standard of care, unfortunately it's not unusual for doctors not to screen pregnant women for chlamydia if they perceive the woman to be at low risk. If you have any concerns, please ask for a test by name.

To get chlamydia test results, contact the health care provider that did the test.

Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacteria the causes the STD known as chlamydia is carried only by humans. It infects and reproduces in columnar epithelium, the kind of tissue found in the urethra, cervix, throat, rectum, and conjunctiva.

Chlamydia can be cured no matter how long you've had it. However, any damage caused by chlamydia will not be fixed by taking the antibiotic.

Chlamydia can cause premature rupture of membranes and preterm labor, both of which increase the risk of cerebral palsy.

Chlamydia doesn't case problems in the stomach itself, but one of the complications of chlamydia can be chronic pelvic pain.

See the doctor right away if you suspect chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Both latex condoms and synthetic non-latex condoms are effective at lowering the risk of chlamydia. Natural skin condoms, like lambskin, are not recommended for prevention of STDs.

But if you have chlamydia you should abstain from oral, anal and vaginal sex -- even with a condom.

There is a possibility your symptoms have cleared up, but you are not entirely cured. The antibotics you have been prescribed may not be effective in your case.

Has you partner been tested? Get your partner tested. You may be getting reinfected because your partner has chlmydia as well. Your partner may be asymptomatic - has chlmydia but is not showing any symptoms.

Also, how do you know you're getting reinfected with chlamydia? If you get tested too soon after treatment, you may be getting a false positive result. If you believe you're reinfected based on symptoms, you may have a second undetected infection.

An antibiotic must be taken to get rid of the chlamydia infection. Symptoms may disappear for a while, but they will return.

There is no need to replace your toothbrush when you have chlamydia. The bacteria that causes chlamydia can only live outside your body for a few minutes. You can't get reinfected by using the same toothbrush after treatment.

The vagina does not look any different in most women with chlamydia. There may be a slightly yellow discharge.

Yes. Because of changes in the cells of the cervix during pregnancy, it's easy to get chlamydia during pregnancy or immediately after birth than it is at other times.

You can't get chlamydia from wearing the clothes you wore before treatment. Chlamydia can only live for minutes outside the body. Chlamydia is spread by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You can get it from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.

"STD" describes how you get chlamydia. It is not a descriptor of whether or not it's curable.

Half of men and only 10-20% of women get symptoms of chlamydia.

There is no such thing as a "chlamydia trait." Chlamydia is not a genetic infection. Once you take effective treatment, the infection is gone, although any damage or scarring it caused is not reversible with antibiotics.

The incubation period -- the time between getting infected and having symptoms -- is one to three weeks for chlamydia in those people who get symptoms. But 80-90% of females and half of males get no symptoms.

It would not be likely to catch the infection from a razor; but the infection can be on a washcloth or towel.
It is not likely to get gonorrhea from a razor blade, but the bacteria can live outside the body for up to 2 hours. I would not share razors or towels with someone that has a STD.

If you have a positive herpes test but no symptoms, you are lucky. The next step depends on the type of test you had. If it was a blood test, there may be no changes required in your life. If it was a genital swab test, you should use condoms when you have sex and avoid sex during an outbreak.

Chlamydia is a bacterial infection; it generally affects the genitourinary system in males, and the genital system in females. It can also affect the conjunctiva of the eye in both sexes. It can cause sterility or blindness. However, it's curable with certain kinds of antibiotics such as azithromycin (beta-lactams such as penicillin inhibit the growth of the bacteria without actually killing them, so penicillin is not an effective cure).

Chlamydia doesn't turn into or cause gonorrhea. If you have chlamydia, the changes it causes in your body can make it easier to get gonorrhea, but only if you have sex or intimate contact with someone who has it.

Chlamydia does not affect your pubic hair.